Lamp-extinguisher.



No. 627.667. Patented lune 27, I899. M. GUETZE.

LAMP E'XTINGUISHER.

(Application filed June 13, 1898.)

(No Model.)

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX GOETZE, OF STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA, ASSIGNOR OF SEVEN-EIGHTHS TO NILLIAM C. BUDERUS, OF SAME PLACE.

LAMP-EXTINGUISHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,667, dated June 27, 1899.

Application filed June 13,1898. Serial No. 683.385.; (N model-l T0 aZZ whom it may concern: wick-tube. It consists of a metal ring a just Be it known that 1, MAX GOETZE, of Sturas much larger than the wick-tube as to easily gis, in the county of Meade and State of South slip up and down. This is attached to and I Dakota, have invented a new and useful rests upon a spiral spring I) of the'same cir- 55 Lamp-Extinguisher, of which herein follows cu mference as the ring a and is large enough afull, clear, and exact description, and which to rest upon the bottom plate of the burner invention is a companion piece to one of a when unpressed and bringing the ring a lamp-extinguisher patented under Letters nearly on line with the plate of the burner Patent No. 484,362, dated October 11, 1892. upon which the chimney rests. To the out- 60 I0 This invention relates. to an improved side of. this ring a are attached, by small safety-extinguisher for bracket, hanging, and springs 0, six gates (1,0f copper or brass, which chandelier lamps, as well as hand and stand gates (I so attached to the ring a are a small lamps, and has for its object to provide a novel distance apart and are somewhat concave and simple attachment for a lamp having a round grow a little narrower toward the top, so as 65 I 5 wick-tube which will automatically cover the to close over the burning wick and inclose the top of such wick-tube and wick in the burner air-distributer, around which the wick burns, and extinguish the light when the chimneyis and thereby extinguish the light. removed, dropped, or knocked off, this round- My extinguisheris controlled by two springs burner lamp being now nearly exclusively e, which are attached to the ring a opposite 7o used for bracket, hanging, and chandelier each other, and which springs extend to the lamps in hotels, warehouses, offices, &c., also outside of the burner horizontally at e railroad-cars, vessels of all kinds, &c., where through incisions out into said outside part accidents are most liable to happen and where of the burner long and wide enough to allow the danger from accidents is so much ensaid springs to freely move up and down. 75 hanced by the setting of fire to them by falling Said springs are then bent upward at e and go or exploding lamps. My lam p-extinguisher through holes in the plate of the burner upon will remove all such dangers from fireif genwhich the chimney rests, as shown in Figs. 2 erally and properly used, because the light of and 3 at A A, so as to give the chimney room the lamp will be immediately extinguished to pass between them. They are bentinward 8o whenever the chimney comes off by force of a little at 6 so as to press upon the chimney, the accident if thechimneyis secured as hereand are then bent outward again, forming inafter described. armse, by which the extinguisher may be To this end my invention consists in the pressed down. peculiar construction of parts, as hereinafter In ordinary position, Fig. 3, when the chim- 85 described and claimed. I ney is off the gates close over the wick, and Reference is to be had to the accompanying when the lamp is to be lighted, the arms e drawings, forming a part of this specification, are pressed down, so that the spiral spring I) in which drawings similar letters of reference is pressed against the bottom of the burner indicate corresponding parts in the figures. and the notches f on springe will catch in the 90 40 Figure 1 in the drawings is a side view of plate of the burner upon which the chimney the extinguisheritself separate from the lamprests. The extinguisher is then open, and the burner. Fig. 2 is a side sectional view of the lamp may be lighted and the chimney placed lamp-burner with extinguisher inserted with on, and the lamp is in working order or burnbroken chimney and showing the extinguisher ing, Fig. 2. Whenever the chimney is taken 5 when down,while the lamp may be lighted and off or is knocked off, the springs e are set free, kept burning. Fig. 3is a side sectional view the spiral spring I) will expand, taking the of the lamp burner with extinguisher inring a and the gates d up with it, and the gates serted, the chimney being off and the extinwill close over the light and extinguish the guisher being up after extinguishing the light. same. 100 My extinguisher, Fig. 1, is inserted in the It must also be mentioned-that as a necesburner between its outside part andthe round sary part of the invention, in case of bracket,

hanging, or chandelier lamps, it is needful that a copper wire be attached to the lower or upper part of the chimney by means of a loop in the wire, and which wire should be fastened to the wall. This contrivance is necessary to make sure that the chimney will come oif the lamp in case the lamp falls or is knocked out of place in an accident, so as to make sure that the extinguisher will do its work and prevent the light from setting fire to the apartment or the lamp from exploding.

If it is desired to remove the chimney without extinguishing the lamp, the arms e may be held down with the fingers or otherwise, so that the notches f in the springs 6 will stay in place in the plate at A A, and the chimney may then be so removed.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In combination with the outer part of a lamp-burner and the wick-tube within the same, an extinguisher consisting of a ring adapted to slip up and down on the said wicktube and the upwardly and inwardly curving springs c and gates (1 supported by the said tube, a spring supporting the said extinguisher, chimney-holding springs e attached to the said ring, and provided with notches adapted to engage the burner when the chimney is in place, the dislodgment of the said chimney by the upsetting of the lamp lea-ving the said springs free to move inward, disengaging themselves from the said burner and allowing the extinguisher to slide downward on the inverted wick-tube, snbstanti all y as and for the purpose set forth.

MAX GOETZE.

Witnesses:

LYMAN LAMB, JOSEPH CARNEY. 

